We are glad to announce that #existdb version 6.4.1 is now released and available on DockerHub, brew, GitHub and Maven Central.

It fixes a couple of small issues and updates key dependencies to their latest compatible versions.

For details you can have a look at the release notes on https://exist-db.org/exist/apps/wiki/blogs/eXist/eXistdb641

Special thanks for the contributions from @nverwer

We plan the next release to start with a 7️⃣

Learn TEI Publisher - Session 3 of 3

https://friprogramvarusyndikatet.tv/w/94EZVi7nVpBkSXzjS3NuXc

Learn TEI Publisher - Session 1 of 3

https://friprogramvarusyndikatet.tv/w/c79WgjkztKCvPPcvkNFUHi

On our way home from #MarkupUK! We had a great time—inspiring talks, cool ideas, and great conversations. Huge thanks to the organizers for a top-notch event.

See you at #DeclarativeAmsterdam or next year at #XMLPrague! #eXistdb

Hey, fellow XML nerds & tag lovers!

If you happen to be at Markup UK in #London this week, and got questions about eXist-db, want to talk about XQuery, native XML databases, or just rant about trying to force hierarchies into SQL tables?

Juri and Duncan from the eXist-db core team will be in the house! Come say hi — we’d would be happy to talk 💬😄

#MarkupUK #existdb #XQuery #OpenSourceLove

New -slim images for duncdrum/existdb!🚀

Now available for 6.4.0+, these come without stockapps in /exist/autodeploy — perfect for minimal base images or lean XQuery-only setups.

All distroless variants have a -slim twin 🧱

e.g. duncdrum/existdb:6.4.0-nonroot-j8-slim

🔗 https://hub.docker.com/r/duncdrum/existdb/tags?name=-slim

#Docker #existdb #XQuery #FOSS #DevOps

The recording of the talk "Rebuilding and modernizing a large, 20-year-old database of folk poetry with eXist-db and TEI Publisher" by Maria Niku from the Finnish Literature Society is online now. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/t2OjxFdcO14

#digitalhumanities #TEI #TEI_Publisher #eXistdb

Upcoming #eeditiones community event Tuesday, the 6th of Mai at 17:00 CEST: Rebuilding and modernizing a large, 20-year-old database of folk poetry with #eXistdb and @tei_publisher by Maria Niku (The Finnish Literature Society)

The majority of the original folk poetry thus collected was published by the Finnish Literature Society in the first half of the 20th century in in 33 printed volumes, containing some 89 000 Kalevala-metre texts.

Read more: https://www.e-editiones.org/posts/community-event-finnish-folk-poetry-with-eXist-tp/

#digitalhumanities